here’s a zine I made for class back in september about a fun fantasy reimagining of the stressful process of navigating the public transit system in toronto as a neurodivergent person.
[image ID: nine image of a digitally illustrated zine in grayscale. the first image is a photo of the physical zine on a white background, and the rest are digital images of each page of the zine.
the cover shows a character named stickers, who is a person with wavy shoulder length hair in a hoodie with a backpack and a full face costume mask, looking at a subway map poster with the title text “a neurodivergent guide to the TTC.” their backpack has the name of the artist, g.m. heebs, on it, and there is graffiti on the wall around the map.
page 1: a collection of everyday items like hand lotion and earbuds, items common to many neurodiverse and disabled people like stim toys and medication, as well as stranger items like a giant sword, with the text "be prepared. bring along essential travel items.”
page 2: a weird map of a travel route, including points labelled “portal to the subway,” “transfer to bus,” and “part where bus becomes alive and gets confused.”
page 3: a scene on the subway where stickers, who is now shown wearing ear defender headphones and with an anthropomorphized plush cat sticking out of their backpack, has climbed up onto the horizontal hold bars, unnoticed by all other masked passengers other than one surprised child, with the text “follow signage and social distance.”
page 4: a scene of an escalator in a subway station. stickers is in the middle of the escalator surrounded by various humanoid creatures, including an angel, a rat person, and a centaur, with the text “respect your fellow riders & they will do the same for you.”
page 5: a scene of stickers sitting on a seat attached to a parachute that is tethered by a rope to a bus and is being pulled behind it with the text “sit as far back on the bus as possible.”
page 6: a scene of stickers stimming with their hands and crouching down on the sidewalk to listen to a pigeon creature with four legs who is explaining something to them, with the text “and if you get lost, ask for directions.”
back cover: a drawing of stickers and their cat at a bus stop standing next to a person in long skirt and a hijab holding the leash of a three-headed dog wearing a service animal vest. below them a text box reads “[asterisk], this zine is meant to be humourous and entertaining. for info on the TTC, see posted signage, pamphlets, or visit WWW.TTC.CA. end ID]
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